Understanding the effect of radiation damage and noble gas accommodation in potential ceramic hosts for plutonium disposition is necessary to evaluate the long-term behaviour during geological disposal. Polycrystalline samples of Nd-doped zirconolite and Nd-doped perovskite were irradiated ex-situ with 2 MeV Kr + at a dose of 5x10 15 ions.cm -2 to simulate plutonium nuclei recoil during alpha d...

[1] Finite temperature ab initio molecular dynamics calculations were performed to determine the high temperature elastic and seismic properties of the perovskite and post-perovskite phases of pure endmember Al2O3. The post-perovskite phase exhibits very large degrees of shear-wave splitting. The incorporation of a few mole percent of Al2O3 into MgSiO3 is predicted to have little effect on the ...

Phase-pure scheelite AMoO4 and AWO4 (A = Ba, Sr, Ca) were thermally treated under an ammonia atmosphere at 400 to 900 °C. SrMoO4 and SrWO4 were shown to convert into cubic perovskite SrMoO2N and SrWO1.5N1.5, at 700 °C and 900 °C respectively, and to form metastable intermediate phases (scheelite SrMoO4-xNx and SrWO4-xNx), as revealed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), elemental analysis and FTIR spect...

Three different perovskite-related phases were isolated in the SrGa(1-x)Sc(x)O(2.5) system: Sr(2)GaScO(5), Sr(10)Ga(6)Sc(4)O(25), and SrGa(0.75)Sc(0.25)O(2.5). Sr(2)GaScO(5) (x = 0.5) crystallizes in a brownmillerite-type structure [space group (S.G.) Icmm, a = 5.91048(5) Å, b = 15.1594(1) Å, and c = 5.70926(4) Å] with complete ordering of Sc(3+) and Ga(3+) over octahedral and tetrahedral posit...

Perovskite semiconductors have emerged as competitive candidates for photovoltaic applications due to their exceptional optoelectronic properties. However, the impact of moisture instability on perovskite films is still a key challenge for perovskite devices. While substantial effort is focused on preventing moisture interaction during the fabrication process, it is demonstrated that low moistu...

Chloride (from PbCl2 or CH3NH3Cl) has been reported to improve the morphology of perovskite thin film and power conversion efficiency (PCE) of corresponding perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the mechanism why chloride functions well in perovskite is unclear. In this work, we investigate the effects of chloric additive (from CH3NH3Cl) on the morphology, diffusion length, and trap state of ...

Since the report on long-term durable solid-state perovskite solar cell in 2012, perovskite solar cells based on lead halide perovskites having organic cations such as methylammonium CH3NH3PbI3 or formamidinium HC(NH2)2PbI3 have received great attention because of superb photovoltaic performance with power conversion efficiency exceeding 22 %. In this review, emergence of perovskite solar cell ...

SrCoO3-δ outperforms as cathode material in solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFC) when the three-dimensional (3C-type) perovskite structure is stabilized by the inclusion of highly-charged transition-metal ions at the octahedral positions. In a previous work we studied the Nb incorporation at the Co positions in the SrCo1-xNbxO3-δ system, in which the stabilization of a tetragonal P4/mmm perovskite sup...

In CH3NH3PbI3-based high efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs), tiny amount of PbI2 impurity was often found with the perovskite crystal. However, for two-step solution process-based perovskite films, most of findings have been based on the films having different morphologies between with and without PbI2. This was mainly due to the inferior morphology of pure perovskite film without PbI2, i...